diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
index c68ac605b8a9999d5ed8c40cad76da462cecbd20..c06c22c953b3039ff701d18813011bb5e5e803b3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
@@ -1717,22 +1717,24 @@ u32 *intel_ring_begin(struct i915_request *rq, unsigned int num_dwords)
 /* Align the ring tail to a cacheline boundary */
 int intel_ring_cacheline_align(struct i915_request *rq)
 {
-	int num_dwords = (rq->ring->emit & (CACHELINE_BYTES - 1)) / sizeof(u32);
-	u32 *cs;
+	int num_dwords;
+	void *cs;
 
+	num_dwords = (rq->ring->emit & (CACHELINE_BYTES - 1)) / sizeof(u32);
 	if (num_dwords == 0)
 		return 0;
 
-	num_dwords = CACHELINE_BYTES / sizeof(u32) - num_dwords;
+	num_dwords = CACHELINE_DWORDS - num_dwords;
+	GEM_BUG_ON(num_dwords & 1);
+
 	cs = intel_ring_begin(rq, num_dwords);
 	if (IS_ERR(cs))
 		return PTR_ERR(cs);
 
-	while (num_dwords--)
-		*cs++ = MI_NOOP;
-
+	memset64(cs, (u64)MI_NOOP << 32 | MI_NOOP, num_dwords / 2);
 	intel_ring_advance(rq, cs);
 
+	GEM_BUG_ON(rq->ring->emit & (CACHELINE_BYTES - 1));
 	return 0;
 }